IDENTIFICATION OF OFFICIAL NAME OF IDENTITY AND GIVEN NAME 6

Out of the seven Names of Identity mentioned above, only two, that is, Ji Jun and Hong Nong could be named as the places of origin, Central Hall. The others might be classified as Branches. But habitually, they are all mentioned as official identity. As for the branches of groups, they call it according to their traditional hall of identity. Therefore, there is no unify name of identity as stated below:-

(1) In Hu Nan area, there are roughly three Halls of Identity: Zhang Sha, Liu Yang, Xiang Tan ( 湘 潭), Heng Shan ( 衡 山) are called Hong Nong Tang (弘 农 堂). Cha Ling and its surrounding Districts are called He Nan Tang ( 河 南 堂). The other smaller Districts are called Hong Yang Tang ( 宏 阳 堂)

(2) Various Districts in Guang Dong, including Hong Kong are called Hong Yang Tang 宏 阳 堂).

(3) In South-east Asia, including Singapore, India and The Philippines are called Hong Yang Tang ( 宏 阳 堂).

(4) The Overseas Chinese in the various townships of Canada called it Tan Guang Yu Tang( 谭 光 裕 堂), However in Montreal, it is called the Central Tan Guang Yu Tang ( 堂 光 裕 总 堂)

(5) In the United States of America, most of the Overseas Chinese have joined the Zhao Lun Gong Suo ( 昭 伦 公 所), which included the Tan ( 谭), Tan ( 谈), Xu ( 许), Xie ( 谢) four surname combined. Only a handful of the areas still used the old name of Tan Jia Tang ( 谭 家 堂).

(6) The Taiwan area is the minimized shadow of Mainland China. There are more than 80% belonged to the various ancestral surname Hall Identity. Our Tan is also no exception.

In general, Ji Jun and Hong Nong are the earliest original Hall Identity (General Hall Identity). Our Tan descendants, until the Tan Kingdom then only granted the boundary of Ji. In view of the long history, we established the Ji Administrative Centre as our belief, and also our blood line Hall Mark. However, since the destruction of Tan by Ji Huan, Tan Zi escaped to Ju, the descendants dispersed to all over the place until the Han Dynasty.

Our Tan population maintained a steady growth, especially those moved to west He Nan Luo Yang ( 河 南 洛 阳) thus became the biggest ethnic group there. According to the explanation by Tai Si Surname ( 邰 思), during the Han, there was the Yin Tan He ( 尹 谭 阂) in He Nan. In general the pronunciation was the same. On record, Hong Nong boundary was in He Nan.

Those ancestors started the ethnic in Hong Nong are the He Nan Yin Tan He. Therefore, naturally Hong Nong has become the official identity surname of our Tan. But, unfortunately during Kang Xi 38 years in the Qing Dynasty changed to Hong Yang Administrative Centre due to superstition.